A Chinese Challenge to Intel

In California last week, Chinese researchers unveiled details of a microprocessor that they hope will bring personal computing to most ordinary people in China by 2010. The chip, code-named Godson-3, ...Full Article

Human geography is mapped in the genes

The genes of a European person can be enough to pinpoint their ancestry down to their home country, claim two new studies.By reading single-letter DNA differences in the genomes of thousands of Europe...Full Article

'Who Owns the Moon?'

Within the next 10 years, the U.S., China, Israel, and a host of private companies plan to set up camp on the moon. So if and when they plant a flag, does that give them property rights? A NASA w...Full Article

Why do We Sleep? -Scientists Search for the Answer

For many of us, sleep is a precious gift, akin to coffee, that was gifted to us early on in our evolution. But scientists have long been completely baffled as to just why we sleep, and just what const...Full Article

Women DON'T have a higher pain threshold than men

Doctors are failing to give women the right level of pain relief, researchers say.It has always been assumed that womens bodies give them a higher pain threshold than men, to help them cope with the a...Full Article

Is a Mega-Katrina "Hypercane" Possible? MIT Scientist Says "Yes"

 MITs Kerry Emanuel describes the worst nightmare hurricane that could ever happen -a hypercane with  winds raging around its center at 500 miles an hour. Water vapor; sea spray and storm de...Full Article

How the Nose Sniffs Danger in the Air

The next time someone says, “I smell danger in the air,” that might literally be true — and the odor might be coming from you.At the tip of the noses of mammals, including humans, is a ball of nerve c...Full Article

10 People with Unbelievable Medical Conditions

1. The Woman Who has 200 Orgasms every dayUKs Sarah Carmen, 24, is a 200-a-day orgasm girl who gets good, good, GOOD vibrations from almost anything. She suffers from Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome...Full Article

Do animals understand death? Do humans?

 While reading the papers this morning my eye was caught by the striking images of Gana, an 11-year old gorilla living at Munster zoo, Germany, holding her dead baby aloft. According to all the n...Full Article

Why short women with long legs are the most attractive

Short women with long legs are the most naturally attractive to men, according to a new study.Women who shape up to the ideal include the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Racquel Welsh and Marilyn Monroe....Full Article

10 Best Science Fiction Planets

Most planets featured in science fiction tend to be rather generic. These planets are usually convenient celestial bodies upon which to pitch a narrative tent for a few scenes before the plot moves on...Full Article

Cooking and Cognition: How Humans Got So Smart

 After two tremendous growth spurts — one in size, followed by an even more important one in cognitive ability — the human brain is now a lot like a teenage boy. It consumes huge amounts of calor...Full Article

Scientists Stop the Ageing Process

  Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says.Published in todays online edition of Nature Medicine, researchers at the Albe...Full Article

Don’t Always Believe the Science

Science has given us some amazing inventions over the centuries. Personally I’m a big fan of the light bulb (thanks Thomas) and the Wright brothers were certainly having a good day when their flying m...Full Article

The Amazing Fate of the Solar Armor Inventor

In 1874, one man; an inventor of considerable genius, was reported to have completely reversed the effect of the sun. In the scorching heat of the mid-summer Nevada desert, he was found frozen stiff b...Full Article

Most babies born to first-cousins are healthy

WA scientists are challenging the myth that inbreeding always leads to unhealthy babies.The highly contentious, often-tabooed practice has in the past been linked to deformities such as heart disease,...Full Article

Top 10 Things Science Hasn't Explained

 Its time to cut to the chase with a look at the top ten things that Science  just cant explain - yet. No were not talking minor mysteries like how Keith Richards is still walking, these are...Full Article

Why Does Hair Turn Gray?

Have you ever watched someone try to cover up gray hair by dyeing it? Or maybe you wonder why your granddad has a full head of silver hair when in old pictures it used to be d...Full Article

Scientists aim to unlock deep-sea “secrets” of Earth’s crust

Scientists from Durham University will use robots to explore the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to study the growth of underwater volcanoes that build the Earth’s crust.The Durham experts will lead an i...Full Article

Did Earth once have multiple moons?

The ancient catastrophe that gave birth to the Moon may have produced additional satellites that lingered in Earths skies for tens of millions of years.A new model suggests moonlets may have once occu...Full Article